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BREAKING: Man arrested in sexual assault of woman at Jupiter home

A 30-year-old man reportedly walked into a Jupiter home last week and sexually assaulted the woman inside, town police records state.

The woman told police that Manuel Edwin Cardenas Silvestre, a citizen of Guatemala, arrived at about 1 a.m. Jan. 25, seemingly intoxicated. He reportedly accused her of cheating on him and grabbed her hair. He pushed her onto the bed and ripped off her clothes.

When she protested his sexual touching, he told her to “give it to him or he would take it by force,” an officer wrote. A struggle ensued, and at one point, he allegedly grabbed a phone from the woman’s hands when she tried to call 911.

Cardenas Silvestre eventually walked out of the room to pick up a 5-month-old baby in the house. The woman dressed and walked to a friend’s home to call police, records state.

Authorities met Cardenas Silvestre at the door of the Jupiter home. He was holding the infant, according to officers, and appeared intoxicated. He declined to talk to authorities, beyond saying that the woman wants to take the baby and $1,000 and leave him.

The woman didn’t have visible injuries beyond bruises on her chest reportedly from a fight the night before.

Cardenas Silvestre, who works in landscaping, was arrested on sexual battery and evidence tampering charges. Jail records indicate he was being held on a $70,000 bail early Thursday. He also is being held for another agency’s case, although the details of that case were not immediately available.